Subject: Deerhoof

• Maps & Atlases

  March 26, 2009

• Monday Music Junkie: Thunderheist, Hot Chip, Deerhoof & more

  September 24, 2007

• Top 80 of '07 According to KKFI DJ

  December 3, 2007

• Sonic Spectrum's Best of 2007

  December 18, 2007

• Our Other Cartoonist's Picks for '07

  December 28, 2007

• Deerhoof

  August 8, 2002

• Tonight! Maps & Atlases at the Jackpot

  Chicago's Maps & Atlases bridge an unlikely divide between math-rock (being the domain of mostly dudes obsessing over Mars Volta's YouTube footage) and indie-pop (the comfy cocoon of under-exercised Belle-and-Sebastian-loving library rats). Maps & Atlases toy with your inner metronome with all kinds of outlandish time signatures, stop-starts, midsong interjections, and waterfalls of guitar arpeggios cascading toward organized chaos. Amazingly, frontman Dave Davison's unorthodox, nasally voice l

  March 30, 2009

• Mi Ami

  February 5, 2009

• Danielson

  June 8, 2006

• Deerhoof

  November 3, 2005

• Deer Hunter

  Understanding Deerhoof is a lot easier after the lobotomy.

  April 29, 2004

• Numbers Game

  Numbers' shows produce an exponential increase in booty-shaking.

  September 18, 2003

• Concert Review: The Vivian Girls and Ponytail, May 4, 2009, at the Jackpot

  REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY IAN HRABE The hardest part about seeing Vivian Girls live is trying to see through their ineffable charm. When the ladies take the stage and fill a 45-minute set with noisy, garage-rock-influenced indie-pop, it's easy to fall in love with the way they've reinvented the girl group. Despite pretty much adoring their eponymous 2008 debut, the six months that have past since I first heard that record have led me through a whirlwind of reactions to Vivian Girls. At first I lov

  May 5, 2009